Thursday, January 5, 2017

The Elusive Objective Truth

If
we are going to drone on constantly about existentialism, it pays to
examine the big question in relation to the subject—does objective
truth exist? If it does, then existentialism is a moot point. All
that must be done I accept the objective truth. If objective truth
does not exist—or, more likely, we cannot find it—then
existentialism is worthy of some thought.

The
issue is if objective truth exists, we cannot find it because we are
all experiencing everything subjectively. But to say that all things
are subjective is to establish an objective truth. In terms you are
likely ore familiar with, to say that everything is relative is to
state an absolute. The statement both confirms and contradicts
itself simultaneously. We obviously reach the limit of thought there.
For every truth established as either relative or absolute, an
additional thought makes it the opposite. An argument about which is
the correct view would be infinitely repetitive.

The
bottom line is objective truth must obviously exist, because even if
it does not, it would be objective truth that objective truth does
not exist. It is another pesky case of a concept being both true and
false simultaneously. Everything we believe to be true could be
wrong. We just have faith that we are not wrong. This is not to say
objective truth does not exist. It state merely that we may have
misidentified it.